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Science Saturday 0516

02:32 In this week's Science Saturday, we look at science news ranging from China's powerful carrier to a possible cure for COVID-19.Long March-5B carrier rocket makes maiden flightChi

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CMU’s tiny robot rover passes NASA design review ahead of 2021 trip to the Moon

Carnegie Mellon University is one step closer to operating its robotic rover on the surface of the Moon: The school’s diminutive bot has passed a crucial NASA design review, performed by the ag

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AWS launches the $995 Elemental Link for streaming video to its cloud

AWS today announced the launch of the Elemental Link, a small hardware device that makes it easy to connect a live video source to the AWS Elemental Media Live service for broadcast-grade live video p

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China installs antenna reflector for Mars exploration mission

China integrally hoisting the antenna reflector for its Mars exploration mission in Tianjin, north China, April 25, 2020. /CCTV China integrally hoisted and installed the antenna reflector for

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U.S. firm unveils COVID-19 test that can deliver results in 5 minutes

Courtesy of Abbott Laboratories U.S. company Abbott Laboratories on Friday unveiled a portable novel coronavirus test device that it claimed can deliver positive results in as little as five m

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China's polar-observation satellite completes Antarctic mission

Penguins in the Antarctic /VCG China's first polar-observation satellite has completed its Antarctic observation mission after orbiting Earth for six months.Since it was launched on September

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Hummingbird-sized dinosaur skull found in amber

A team of scientists from China, the United States and Canada have found the skull of a tiny dinosaur preserved in 100-million-year-old amber. The amber, discovered in

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NASA names its next-generation Mars rover "Perseverance"

The U.S. space agency NASA on Thursday named its next-generation Mars rover "Perseverance." The rover is designed to better understand the geology of Mars and seek signs of ancient life and is sched

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Rocket Lab will launch a satellite to the Moon for NASA to prepare for the Lunar Gateway

Launch startup Rocket Lab has been awarded a contract to launch a CubeSat on behalf of NASA for the agency’s CAPSTONE experiment, with the ultimate aim of putting the CAPSTONE CubeSat into cislu